Asia-Pacific
More unidentified bodies surface at US cemetery
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-03 09:50
CHICAGO: Officials say workers are finding human remains in the ground before burials at cemetery where former workers were charged with digging up graves in a scheme to resell plots.
Officials at Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Chicago said Wednesday that workers preparing burial sites found a human bone where they didn't know anyone was buried. They also found caskets twice.
Cemetery officials say they have no paperwork to help identify the remains or when they were buried. One official says he suspects the bodies were buried in the 1930s.
The historic black cemetery had closed for nearly four months after authorities arrested four workers and began searching the grounds. They found more than 1,100 human bones.
The cemetery was reopened in November.
